Abstract: A recording/reproducing apparatus is provided with: a signal extracting device for extracting a reference image signal to display a reference image about contents, at certain time intervals on its reproduction time axis, from an image signal recorded on a magnetic tape; a memory for accumulating the extracted reference image signal; a reading device capable of reading the reference image signal accumulated in the memory, to display the reference image; an inputting device capable of externally inputting an operation instruction about a copy operation from the tape-shaped recording medium to the disc-shaped recording medium, after the reference image is displayed.

Abstract: An image information reproducing apparatus generates a video signal carrying an original image from a read signal acquired from an image information recording medium, prepares a manually-input image to be superimposed on the original image in accordance with an operational input, thereby generating a manually-input image signal, generates a mixed image signal carrying a mixed image having the manually-input image superimposed on the original image, based on the video signal and the manually-input image signal, and stores the manually-input image signal in association with address information in the recording medium of a video signal corresponding to the original image on which the manually-input image is superimposed.